Senior Scholar, LIS Email checchi@lisdatacenter.org Daniele Checchi is Professor of Economics at the University of Milan in Italy, currently on leave from university duties, working at Italian National agency for the Evaluation of the University system and serves as Director of the Luxembourg Office of LIS. His research interests, published in journals like Economic Policy, […]
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Senior Scholar, LIS Leslie McCall will join the Graduate Center faculty in January 2017. She will also become the Associate Director of the Stone Center.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/senior-scholars/leslie-mccall/
Senior Adviser in the World Bank’s Development Research Group, where he oversees the Bank’s research programs on poverty, inequality and agriculture, presented the 2016 LIS Summer Lecture:
Measuring Global Poverty: Past, Present and Future.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/francisco-ferreira/
One new dataset from Finland, FI13, (WaveIX), has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is from the 2014 wave of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), which is carried out by Statistics Finland. In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, 5 earlier Finnish datasets (FI10/07/04/00/95) have been revised for consistency. […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/finland-2013-added-to-the-lis-database/
Five datasets from the United States, US95, US98, US01, US04 and US07, have been added to the LWS Database. The datasets are from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), carried out by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Please note that these datasets were included in the LWS pilot database but have […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-us-datasets-added-to-the-lws-database/
We are pleased to announce that the LIS Center has been selected to host the 2017 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). The meeting will be held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, on 17-19 July, 2017. The call-for-papers will be issued by the ECINEQ […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/uncategorized/lis-hosts-ecineq-2017/
We are delighted to announce that we have acquired, for the first time, microdata from Paraguay. As of today, two datasets, PY10 (Wave VIII) and PY13 (Wave IX), are available in the LIS Database. The datasets are respectively from the 2010 and 2013 waves of the Continuous Household Survey (EPH), which are carried out by […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-country-data-from-paraguay-now-available-in-the-lis-database/
One new dataset from Luxembourg, LU13, (Wave IX), has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is from the 2014 wave of Socio-Economic Panel “Living in Luxembourg” / Panel socio-économique “Liewen zu Letzebuerg” (PSELL III), carried out by the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, the […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/luxembourg-2013-added-to-the-lis-database/
One new dataset from Slovenia, SI12 (Wave IX), has been added to the LIS Database The dataset is from the 2012 wave of Household Budget Survey (HBS), which is carried out by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, the Slovenian datasets from the previous two […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/slovenia-2012-added-to-lis-database/
Read abstract One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/global-inequality-a-new-approach-for-the-age-of-globalization/